Hatem’s Diaries

What does this pict remind you ?

Via Seth.

Last night I just finished reading Confidential SEO Secrets book written by Allen Harkleroad. The book name was “No Fluff just the SEO Stuff” but Allen just told me that he change it based on suggestion from Robert Scoble, it was one of the suggestion I sent also before to notice that he change it already. I’ve send Allen some corrections and suggestions and I’ll post full review later on the SEO Magazine. Long time that I didn’t read a book about SEO, and start counting until the next one !

Update 14/12/2006 : Confidential SEO Secrets review online

Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

by Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth President of the United States (1977-1981), released a new book which is very unique in its context Israel-Palestine conflict from the point of vue of an ex US president. Jimmy Carter who helped bring amity between Egypt and Israel through the Camp David agreement of 1978, gives a slap to the Israel government and put all responsibilities in their side. Apartheid is the policy implemented by National Party government (1948-94) to maintain separate development of government-demarcated racial groups; also referred to as “separate development,” an d later “multinational development”; abolished by Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1993. Comparing the Isreali gov to the South African gov I think it’s all said. I don’t know if the book is already available here, but I’ll try to check it tonight. I think it’s a must read !

You can read an excerpt of the book: Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

Update : There is a bug in the website rendering the image twice probably due to the latest svn version, It will be fixed. Sorry for inconvenience.

I was working since yesterday on a Glofish eten X500, one of the new generation of Pocket PCs with integrated GPS, WIFI.I tested almost all available GPS mapping software for PPC, and was surprised to see that a very basic feature is not available. All available software allow you to enter two addresses and show the road between the them, but there is no way to enter directly coordinates of the two points. While it’s a very basic feature, addresses are automatically converted to coordinates, so what’s wrong if they allow to enter directly coordinates ?

After long trials, I have found a suitable solution with Destinator6, but now I have to find their desinator console which I’m not sure if it’s for PPC or PC since they have a proprietary format, and the procedure is really complex : writing coordinates in csv format, convert it using destinator console, then import it from Destinator !! The problem : we have coordinates and just the Glofish, is it too much asking to show a map with the two stupid points ? I need also to sleep for two hours then get back working on this

One of the priorities this month was the new job board section, which launch is planned before the end of this year. Now it become an emergency to launch it as we have already requests from some companies interested to advertise their jobs on our network. Currently 75% of the code is done even its started last week, there is few marketing points that I’m cleaning up after that we’ll announce the first beta online. This have been said, I’m not busy anymore, I’m overloaded !!

He know that he’s not welcomed, at least now, but he’s going anyway !

Today I had my first VideoConference between our local team in Makkah and another team in Dammam, to work on a new project between the two administrations. The videoconference equipment was very new, and the network team made the necessary settings to establish connections … etc. The quality was amazing, especially that in Dammam they have a 36Gig line, and we have just 1Gig You can imagine the difference ! The meeting took about one hour, where we agree about different technical issues for the project, and we’ll have another VideoConference this Saturday.

The hardware we have is an TANDBERG Edge 95 MXP with the possibility to join up to 4 video sites and 3 audio sites together. Superior video quality incorporating the H.264 standard and also Protection against network interruptions in point-to-point and multipoint calls with automatic Downspeeding and IPLR. Something that we didn’t think about was to bring a laptop for the presentation, because it’s crazy when you talk with developers for the first time, and I was very happy when they mentioned “webservices”, but very confused when they didn’t understood XML and SOAP that my friend here mentioned to be sure that we are talking about the same thing.

Voila une des plus belles galeries photos que j’ai vu en ligne, il s’agit de celle de Kiki Plumier. Y’en a un peu de tout : Abstraits, Bulles, Gouttes, Hétéroclites, Nature, Nocturne, Papiers, Plumes et même des dessins à la main, à visiter absolument.

This is the Tunisian edition of Story words.

A story of a father encouraging his son to be active in politics

Source Abu Mahjoob